Google Blasts An Entire Domain From Its Search Results For Being Too Spammy

Google has hidden more than 11 million URLs from its search
results as part of its ongoing effort against search spam.

The company has blocked all sites ending in "co.cc."

That is not an official second-level domain like .co.uk. Rather,
it's privately owned by a Korean company, which lets other
companies reserve 15,000 domains at a time for a bulk price of
$1,000.

As reported
by The Register, sites ending in co.cc were a major source of
phishing attacks in 2010, and Google's anti-spam head recently
explained (in a Google+ post, of all places) that the company
reserves the right to block an entire domain "if we see a very
large fraction of sites on a specific freehost be spammy or
low-quality."

The top-level part of the domain, .cc, is owned by the tiny Cocos
Islands.